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This article is about the company. For its search engine, see Yandex Search.

Yandex LLC (Russian: Яндекс, romanized: Yandeks, IPA: [ˈjandəks]) is a Russian technology company that provides Internet-related products and services including a web browser, search engine, cloud computing, web mapping, online food ordering, streaming media, online shopping, and a ridesharing company.

Yandex LLC
Native name
Яндекс
Company typePrivately held company
Industry
Founded
  • 23 September 1997; 27 years ago (23 September 1997) (Yandex search launched by CompTek)
  • 2007; 17 years ago (2007) (reincorporation of holding company in the Netherlands)
Founder
HeadquartersMoscow, Russia
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Artyom Savinovsky (CEO)[1]
ProductsList of Yandex products and services
Revenue356,171,000,000 Russian ruble (2021) Edit this on Wikidata
28,461,000,000 Russian ruble (2023) Edit this on Wikidata
21,775,000,000 Russian ruble (2023) Edit this on Wikidata
Total assets786,628,000,000 Russian ruble (2023) Edit this on Wikidata
OwnerAlexander Chachava (25%)
Pavel Prass (15%)
Lukoil (15%)
Alexander Ryazanov (10%)
Senior management (35%)
(It is speculated that the publicly identified owners are intermediaries for others)[2][3]
Number of employees
25 431 (2022)
Website
Footnotes / references
[4][5]

Yandex Search is the largest search engine in Russia with an estimated 72% market share in Russia[6] and a 2.8% market share worldwide.[7] Yandex Taxi is the largest ridesharing company in Russia.[8]

The company was founded by Arkady Volozh and launched its first product, a search engine, in 1997. Due to its significant media activities in Russia, the company has long faced pressure for control by the government of Russia. In July 2024, in a transaction brought about by international sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and restrictions on foreign ownership, Nebius Group, the Dutch holding company that owned Yandex, sold its Russian assets to a group of Russian investors for a discounted price of US$5.3 billion.

History

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In 1990, Arkady Volozh contacted Ilya Segalovich (1964-2013), a friend of his from high school, to join his venture developing algorithms to search Russian texts.[9] They developed search software together under the company name Arcadia.[10]

In 1993, they invented the name "Yandex" as an easy way to remember "Yet Another iNDEXer".[11] This is also a bilingual pun on "index" since "Я" ("ya") means "I" in Russian.

On September 23, 1997, the Yandex.ru search engine was launched and presented at the Softool exhibition in Moscow.[12]

Arcadia became part of CompTek, asoftware and computer part supply company, with Volozh as the CEO in 2000.[13]

In 1998, Yandex launched contextual advertisement on its search engine.[14] In 2000, Yandex was incorporated in Cyprus as a standalone company.[15]

In 2000, Baring Vostok Capital Partners acquired 35.72% of the company for $5.28 million.[16]

In 2001, Yandex launched the Yandex.Direct online advertising network.[17]

The company became profitable in 2003.[18]

Between 2004 and 2006, Tiger Technologies obtained an 11% ownership stake in the company.[19]

In September 2005, Yandex opened an office in Ukraine and launched a Ukrainian website.[20] In 2007, Yandex introduced a customized search engine for Ukrainian users and in May 2007, it opened a development center in Kyiv in May 2007. In 2008, Yandex extended its presence in Ukraine by increasing bandwidth between Moscow data centers and UA-IX in Ukraine fivefold. In 2009, all services of www.yandex.ua were localized for the Ukrainian market. In 2010, Yandex launched its "Poltava" search engine algorithm for Ukrainian users based on its MatrixNet technology.

In March 2007, Yandex acquired moikrug.ru, a Russian social networking service.[21]

In June 2008, Yandex announced the formation of Yandex Labs in Silicon Valley, to foster innovation in search and advertising technology, with Vishal Makhijani as its CEO.[22][23]

Also in June 2008, Yandex acquired SMILink, a Russian road traffic monitoring agency, which was merged into Yandex Maps.[24]

In September 2008, the company acquired the rights to the Punto Switcher software program, an automatic Russian to English keyboard layout switcher.[25]

In January 2009, Firefox 3.5 replaced Google with Yandex as the default search provider for Russian-language builds.[26] Google was reinstated in 2012.[27]

In May 2010, Yandex launched an English language-only web search engine.[28][29][30]

In September 2010, Yandex launched Yandex Music, a music streaming service, with a catalogue of 800,000 tracks from 58,000 performers.[31][32][33]

Also in September 2010, Yandex invested in a $4.3 million financing round by Face.com (formerly Vizi Labs).[34] The company was acquired by Facebook in 2012 and Yandex received $5.7 million and 142,479 shares of Facebook for its stake.[35]

In December 2010, Yandex launched Yandex.Start to find startups and work with them systematically, and purchased WebVisor's behavior analysis technology.[36]

In January 2011, the company acquired single sign-in service Loginza.[37]

On May 24, 2011, the holding company that owned Yandex, Yandex N.V. (now called Nebius Group), raised $1.3 billion in an initial public offering on NASDAQ, the biggest initial public offering for a dot-com company since Google's offering in 2004.[38][39][40][41] At that time, Baring Vostok Capital Partners owned a 35% stake in the company and Tiger Technologies owned a 15% stake.[42][43]

In June 2011, Yandex and Rambler signed an ad network deal to freeze out Russian competitors.[44]

In August 2011, Yandex acquired The Tweeted Times, a news delivery startup.[45][46]

In September 2011, the company launched its web portal in Turkey in 2011 and opened an office in Istanbul.[47][48]

Also in September 2011, Yandex acquired 10% of Blekko for a $15 million investment as part of a $30 million financing round.[49][50][51]

In November 2011, it acquired software developer SPB Software for $38 million.[52][53]

In March 2012, the company opened its first European office in Lucerne to serve advertising clients in the EU.[54][55]

In June 2012, the company acquired a 25% stake in Seismotech for $1 million.[56][57]

In October 2012, Yandex launched a Chromium-based web browser.[58][59][60]

In November 2012, Yandex launched a mapping service for Europe and the U.S.[61]

In March 2013, the company added an English language user interface to its translation mobile app to widen its international appeal.[62]

In July 2013, Mail.Ru began placing Yandex Direct ads on its search result pages.[63]

In October 2013, the company acquired KinoPoisk, the biggest Russian movie search engine.[64][65][66][67]

In 2013, Yandex became the largest media property in Russia by revenue.[68]

In 2014, the company opened its first European research and development office in Berlin.[69]

In February 2014, Yandex invested several million dollars in MultiShip.[70][71]

In March 2014, it acquired Israeli geolocation startup KitLocate and opened a research and development (R&D) office in Israel.[72][73][74]

In May 2014, the company invested in SalesPredict, an Israeli company developing technology for predicting commercial sales.[75]

In June 2014, the company acquired Auto.ru, an online marketplace and classified advertising website for automobiles, for $175 million.[76][77]

In November 2014, the company launched a new Chromium-based browser for Windows and Mac OS X.[78]

In May 2015, Yandex launched a minimalist web browser.[79]

In June 2015, the company launched Yandex.Radio.[80][81]

In September 2015, the company opened an office in Shanghai to facilitate work with Chinese companies operating on the Russian language market.[82]

In December 2015, the company acquired Internet security company Agnitum.[83]

In June 2017, the company closed its offices in Ukraine after its bank accounts were blocked.[84]

Also in June 2017, the company invested in a $5 million financing round by Doc+.[85]

In October 2017, the company introduced its intelligent personal assistant, Alisa (Alice), for Android, iOS, and Microsoft Windows.[86][87][88]

In December 2017, the company acquired food delivery Foodfox.[89]

In 2018, the company launched Yandex Games, an Internet gaming platform accessible via browser and mobile. By 2022, 10,000 games were available on the platform.[90] As of January 2022, it had more than 11 million players per month.[91] The platform generates income via advertising and in-app purchases as well as its in-game currency called "Yans".[91]

In February 2018, the company showed off the first tests of its self-driving cars in Moscow.[92][93]

Also in February 2018, Yandex acquired Uber's businesses in Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus and Georgia.[94]

In May 2018, Sberbank and Yandex completed a joint venture deal to develop a B2C eCommerce ecosystem.[95]

Also in May 2018, the company unveiled Yandex.Station, a smart speaker.[96]

In August 2018, Yandex acquired fuel delivery service Toplivo v Bak.[97]

In October 2018, Yandex acquired Edadil (Russian: Едадил, lit. "grocery deals"), a deal aggregator service.[98]

In December 2018, Yandex announced the release of the Yandex.Phone, a smartphone.[99][100]

In September 2019, Yandex announced plans to create an investment portal in partnership with VTB Bank.[101]

In October 2019, the company unveiled the second smart speaker of its own design - "Yandex. Station Mini."[102]

Also in October 2019, Yandex Taxi acquired Partiya Edy ('The Party of Food').[103]

In November 2019, the company was forced by the Russian government to undergo a corporate restructure, giving more influence to pro-Kremlin board members. Vladimir Putin was reportedly personally involved in the negotiations.[104]

For the month of April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia, Yandex made its home COVID-19 testing service free of charge for all residents of certain areas.[105][106]

In July 2020, the company terminated its joint venture with Sberbank, fully acquiring Yandex Market and selling its interest in Yandex Money, which was rebranded as YooMoney.[107]

In August 2020, the company's offices in Minsk were raided by authorities to suppress protesters of the results of the 2020 Belarusian presidential election.[108]

In September 2020, Yandex spun off the direction of unmanned cars into a separate company, Yandex Self Driving Group.[109]

In October 2020, Yandex held merger negotiations with Tinkoff Bank (now T-Bank) but the two sides failed to agree on terms.[110][111][112]

In March 2021, the company launched Yandex Pay, a cashless payment service.[113]

In June 2021, Yandex, VTB Bank, LANIT Group and computer hardware producer Gigabyte founded a joint venture to produce servers in Russia.[114]

Also in August 2021, Yandex acquired Uber's stake its self-driving car division and food delivery business in a $1 billion transaction.[115][116]

In September 2021, the IT company's servers were subjected to the largest DDoS attack in the history of the Runet.[117]

Also in September 2021, the company completed the corporate spin-off of Clickhouse.[118][119]

In October 2021, construction of a new plant in Ryazan Oblast was launched with 1 billion roubles during the first stage of investments. The new plant will produce servers, data storage systems, gateways and smart equipment under "Openyard" brand.[120] However, in June 2023 Yandex announced it was looking for ways to exit the joint venture.[121]

Also in October 2021, Yandex acquired Wind’s Tel Aviv operations.[122]

In January 2022, Yandex acquired eLama, a digital advertising platform.[123] That same month, it also acquired BandLink.[124]

In April 2022, CEO Elena Bunina resigned and moved to Israel.[125][126]

In June 2022, Volozh resigned as CEO and from the board of directors.[127]

In September 2022, the bank accounts of the company's affiliates in Finland, including those of Yango Group, were frozen.[128]

Also in September 2022, Zen, Zen News, and yandex.ru were sold to VK.[129][130][131] Yandex acquired Delivery Club from VK.[132][133] The company then changed its home page to ya.ru.[134][135][136]

In December 2022, Yandex registered the company Beyond ML in Armenia to hold international investments.[137]

Also in December 2022, Arkady Volozh resigned from the company.[138]

In May 2023, Yandex launched YandexGPT, a neural network analogous to the ChatGPT neural network.[139] It implemented the YandexGPT generative neural network in the virtual assistant Alice.[140]

Between 2021 and 2023, Yandex introduced automatic voice-over translation for any YouTube video in English, Chinese, French, Spanish and German.[141]

In June 2023, the company launched a test of its first self-driving taxi in Moscow.[142]

Also in 2023, the company opened an office in Belgrade, its biggest international office.[143][144][145]

In July 2024, in a transaction brought about by international sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and restrictions on foreign ownership, Nebius Group, the Dutch holding company that owned Yandex, sold its Russian assets to a group of Russian investors for a discounted price of US$5.3 billion.[146][147][148][149][150][151] The publicaly identified investor group includes Alexander Chachava (25%), Pavel Prass (15%), Lukoil (15%), Alexander Ryazanov (10%), and senior management (35%).[3] However, it is speculated that the publicly identified owners are intermediaries for others.[2] Other bidders for the assets included Vladimir Potanin.[152]

In October 2024, the company announced plans to invest $400 million in Turkey.[153]

Open source

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In 2009, Yandex began development on its project MatrixNet. It was a unique patented algorithm for the building of machine learning models, which used one of the original gradient boosting schemes. In July 2017, the CatBoost library was released to the public. It implements the Matrixnet algorithm for the building of machine learning models.[154]

At the time of release, the technology was already in use as part of a collaborative project with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to analyze the results of conducted particle experiments [155]

CatBoost is used by JetBrains for code completion, CloudFlare for bot detection, and Careem for trip-distance determination.[156][157][158]

In 2012, Yandex began research and development within the field of natural-speech processing.

In October 2013, Yandex launched Cocaine, an open-source PaaS system for creating custom cloud-hosting apps.[159]

In October 2023, the company introduced Yandex SpeechKit. It is a speech-recognition and synthesis technology as well as a public API for speech recognition that Android and iOS developers can use.[160]

In June 2022, the company published the source code for the YDB database management system. It is used in its own voice assistant Alice as well as in Yandex.Go and Yandex Market services.[161][162]

In March 2023, Yandex published the source code for YTsaurus, a platform for work with big data.[163][164]

Controversies

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Illegally collecting Ukrainian users' data (June 2017)

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In May 2017, all Yandex services were banned in Ukraine by Presidential Decree No. 133/2017.[165] On June 1, 2017, Yandex closed its offices in Kyiv and Odesa, Ukraine after the Security Service of Ukraine raided the offices and accused the company of illegally collecting Ukrainian users' data and sending it to Russian security agencies.[166] The firm denied any wrongdoing.

Cyberattack (October / November 2018)

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In October and November 2018, Yandex was targeted in a cyberattack using the Regin malware, aimed at stealing technical information from its research and development unit on how users were authenticated.[167] An investigation by Kaspersky Lab attributed the hacks to Five Eyes intelligence agencies.[167]

Refusal to cooperate with Federal Security Service request to surrender encryption keys (2019-2023)

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In June 2019, RBC Group reported that Yandex had refused a request by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) under the Yarovaya law to surrender encryption keys that could decrypt the private data of its e-mail service and cloud storage users. The company argued that it was impossible to comply with the relevant law without compromising its users' privacy.[168] Maxim Akimov, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, said that the government would take action to relieve FSB pressure on the company.[169] Alexander Zharov, head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, subsequently said that Yandex and the FSB had reached an agreement where the company would provide the required data without handing over the encryption keys.[170]

In June 2023, Yandex was fined 2 million roubles by a Moscow court for its repeated refusal to share user information with the Federal Security Service.[171][172]

Compromise of email accounts of 5,000 users (February 2021)

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In February 2021, Yandex admitted that one of their system administrators with access rights to Yandex's email service had enabled unauthorized access, leading to almost 5,000 Yandex email inboxes being compromised.[173]

Anti-competitive actions (April 2021)

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In April 2021, Yandex was accused by the Federal Antimonopoly Service of promoting its own products in its search results.[174]

Harvesting of user data (March 2022)

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In late March 2022, Yandex was the subject of an investigation by Financial Times and Me2B Alliance, a nonprofit organization, as part of an application auditing campaign led by researcher Zach Edwards. Edwards and four expert researchers, including Cher Scarlett, a former Apple security engineer, found that a software development kit (SDK) called AppMetrica, a product of Yandex, was harvesting data from more than 52,000 applications such as a user's device fingerprint and IP address and storing it in Russia on Yandex's servers, which they said due to Russian law, and the nature of SDKs, could be accessed by Russian authorities without their knowledge. Yandex denied that it was practical to indentify users based on the information harvested and said that requests for the data would be turned down.[175][176]

Depictions of Russian borders with Ukraine (June 2022)

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In June 2022, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the company no longer displayed the borders between Russia and Ukraine on Yandex Maps.[177][178]

Promotion of pro-Kremlin media (2022)

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In February 2022, upon the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Yandex warned its users that it was threatened by the Russian government regarding information that it posted about Ukraine.[179]

In March 2022, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported that Yandex-delivered ads promoted misinformation about the war in Ukraine.[180] Many of the articles displayed in Yandex's news aggregators were also from Russian state-owned and state-sponsored sources and the top search results about the war would sometimes prominently feature pro-war websites.[181]

In March 2022, Tigran Khudaverdyan resigned as executive director and deputy CEO after being sanctioned by the European Union for "hiding information" from the Russian public through the manipulation of search results.[182]

According to an investigation by Meduza published on 5 May 2022, since 2016, the top-5 results on the Yandex home page only includes pro-Kremlin media approved by the Presidential Administration of Russia. Yandex stated that the highest-ranked news on its home page is generated automatically through its algorithm. However, under Russian law, only news received from registered media sources may appear.[183]

Source code leak (January 2023)

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On January 25, 2023, a leaked archive with 44 GB of Yandex source code was shared on BreachForums via BitTorrent.[184][185]

Violations of Russian ban on "LGBT propaganda" (July 2023)

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In July 2023, Kinopoisk, a subsidiary of the company, was fined 1 million rubles for "showing films demonstrating non-traditional sexual relations". The fine came after Russia outlawed public displays of non-traditional relationships and lifestyles to people of any age.[186]

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In April 2014, a film about the history of Yandex called Startup was released.[187][188] The film was compared to The Social Network.[187]

Statistics

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Operating statistics
Year Revenue Number of servers Number of employees Internet advertising market size References
2002 60 million rubles 160 100 10 million dollars
2012 28 billion rubles 10 thousand 4,5 thousand 1,7 billion dollars
2019 175,4 billion rubles ? 10 092 3,1 billion dollars
Dynamics of the daily number of search queries Yandex Search[189][190][191][192][193][194][195][196]

See also

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